Key state lawmakers Friday threw their support behind efforts to solve the understaffing problems in the Department of Child Services. DCS caseworkers are handling workloads so big that the Pence Administration has been sued by the ACLU. And only one of 19 regions in the state has adequate staffing according to state guidelines. But when DCS Director Mary Beth Bonaventura appeared before the State Budget Committee in West Lafayette she encountered sympathetic lawmakers. The governor’s announcement Thursday to hire 113 new caseworkers will permit the state to come into compliance, Bonaventura said. She cited a 26 percent increase in the…